In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential areas" from the freeze.

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never stopped and is expected to grow.

The director of the Federal Bureau of ... the use of private prisons has been repealed amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement drastic reforms to the Justice Department.

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons. Here's what to know.

In an executive order, the president also moved to end gender-related medical treatments for transgender people in prison.

The Trump administration authorized U.S. Marshals, DEA and Bureau of Prisons officers to conduct immigration enforcement.

Drones are used for contraband delivery and the threats they pose to prisons and jails: what can local law enforcement do?.

Federal prosecutors are told in no uncertain terms that they will be on the front lines of an administration-wide effort to crack down on illegal immigration and border crime.

One of President Trump's first executive orders impacts transgender inmates incarcerated in federal facilities. It's just one in a series of actions signed by Trump that target the trans community.

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First, let good cops be cops. Second, transparency is essential.

Trump has remained remarkably faithful to his dark, Day One promises, and has attempted to govern as an authoritarian. The president’s early actions have not gone unchallenged. A bevy of lawsuits — including, as promised, by blue-state attorneys general — have already been filed, seeking to block, or at least blunt, the damage.